The 8th International Symposium on Robotics & Mechatronics (ISRM2024) will be held in Djerba, Tunisia, from April 17 to 19, 2024. The program is as follows.

Name of event:	19th international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2024)
Data:	April 17 (Wed) - 19 (Fri), 2024
Place:	Djerba, Tunisia.
Schedule:	Full paper submission: December 15, 2023 Acceptance notification: February 10, 2024 Final paper submission: March 01, 2024
CFP:	PDF file is available
Official website:	https://isrm2024.sciencesconf.org/

The 19th international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2024) will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, next year. Details are as following:

Name of the event:	19th international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2024)
Date:	June 30 (Sun) - July 4 (Thu), 2024
Place:	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Important dates:	Full paper submission: January 15, 2023 Acceptance notification: February 28, 2024 Final paper submission: March 18, 2024 Availability of the book: 30 June, 2024 (at the symposium)
CFP：	https://ark2024.org/call-for-papers/
Official WEB site:	https://ark2024.org/

The next Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators (RoManSy) will be held as a joint conference with the Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (MSR). The detail is as following:

Name of the conference:	MSR-RoManSy 2024 (25th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators and 3rd USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems & Robotics)
Date:	May 22(Wed) - 25(Sat), 2024
Place:	University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
CFP:	PDF file
Official WEB site:	https://sites.google.com/view/msr-romansy2024

Please access to the registration page (Peatix).
Due to the system limitation, registration fees displayed on the page are all zero. However, please pay the ammount written in the down section at the reception desk.
When you do not have a membership (belong to the "Non-member"), you can become a member by paying an annual fee for the membership (5,000JPY) at the reception desk. In that case, registration fee for the symposium would be free instead of the annual fee.

URL to download the proceedings will be noticed only for registered person.
Please do not forget to register!

Symposium site is the conference room on the 3rd floor of Ito Research Center, the University of Tokyo.
Please note that having lunch in the room will not be allowed.

For the symposium program, HTML version and PDF version are available.

Japanese council of IFToMM will hold the International Symposium on Future of Mechanism and Machine Science. This symposium is also the 28th Special Seminar of School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Executive Council members of World IFToMM will give us excellent talks and a panel discussion. Many researchers and students related to this field are strongly expected to attend this symposium and to build valuable networks.

Date and Time	24th October, Monday, 14:00-16:20
Venue	Meeting room 304, Ishikawadai 1 Bldg., TokyoInstitute of Technology 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 * You can attend this symposium via ZOOM with the following URL.
Theme	Future of Mechanism and Machine Science
Program
14:00	Welcome address by Prof. Kotaro Inoue, Dean, School of Engineering, Tokyo Tech, Japan
14:05	Talk1 "Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanisms as Multibody Systems" by Prof. Andres Kecskemethy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, President of IFToMM
14:35	Talk2 "Novel Mechanism Applications in Robotics" by Prof. Erwin Lovasz, University Politechnicaof Timisoara, Romania, Secretary General of IFToMM
15:05	Talk3 "Advanced Mechanisms for Future Vehicles" by Prof. Fernando ViaderoRueda, University of Cantabria, Spain Vice President of IFToMM
15:35	Talk4 "Next Generation Underwater Robotic Manipulation: The Ursula Project" by Prof. Mehmet Ismet Can Dede, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey EC member of IFToMM
15:45	Panel discussion Panelists (in addition to the above four person): Prof. Andreas Muller, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Prof. Juan Carlos JaureguiCorrea, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico Prof. Yukio Takeda, Tokyo Tech, Japan Prof. BurckhardCorves, RWTH Aachen, Germany
16:15	Closing address by Prof. Nobuyuki Iwatsuki, TokyoTech, Japan
Language	English
Registration	Please register to participate in the symposium via Google form or QR code bolow:
Zoom information	ID: 989 6016 1567 / passcode: pE4edL
Co-sponsors	Japanese council of IFToMM and School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Cooperators	Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Robotics Society Japan, Japan Society for Design Engineering
Contact	Prof. Nobuyuki Iwatsuki, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology E-mail: iwatsuki.n.aa@m.titech.ac.jp iwatsuki.n.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
PDF leaflet	Download from here.

International student workshop, 5th Students International Olympiad on Mechanism and Machine Science (SIOMMS2022) will be held as following. IFToMM ISEMMS (International Symposium of Education in MMS) will also be held on the same week at same place. Please take a look at the web site and PDF flyer for details.

Date:	30 november to 1 December 2022
Place:	The University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
PDF flyer:	download
Official web site:	https://eventos.uc3m.es/85605/detail/5th-students-international-olympiad-on-mechanism-and-machine-science.html

We are pleased to inform that a special jounal issue of selected paper of The Second International Jc-IFToMM Symposium in conjunction with the Twenty-fifth Jc-IFToMM Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms has been published.

Please access to the journal by the following link:
Special Issue: "Selected Papers from Advances of Japanese Machine Design"

A registration site for the 26th Jc-IFToMM symposium and the 3^rd International Jc-IFToMM symposium (Mar. 19 (Fri), 2021, Online) has been opened. Please jump to the registration site by the following link.
Link to the registration site (the page will be opened in a new tab or window.)
The program of the symposium has became available.

An international symposium，5^th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robots (MEDER2021) will be held by IFToMM on June 23 - 25, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 issue, making presentations remotely for participants who cannot go to the site is possible. Authors are kindly asked to submit original full papers with recommended length of 6 to 8 pages in Springer format. Instructions will be available in the Symposium webpage. All accepted and presented papers will be published in a Scopus indexed book of the Springer Series Mechanisms and Machine Science, with the title: "Advances in Mechanism Design for Robots - MEDER 2021". For each of three categories (Research, Applications, and Student) three awards (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) will be given to the best papers.

Online registration due for ROMANSY2020 [September 20(Sun) - 24(Thu)] has been extended to Sep. 4 (Fri).
Website: http://romansy2020.jc-iftomm.org/

Registration fee for delegate from IFToMM MO is 15,000JPY, and that for student is 5,000JPY.

In the conference, 67 oral presentations will be given in a single session role, and four keynote speaches as follows and five presentations from industrial companies will be given.

• Dr. Xiaolong Feng, Business Research Manager at ABB Robotics
  "Towards Autonomous Robots"
• Dr. Natsuki Yamanobe, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)
  "How should robots move to work together with humans?"
• Prof. Dongheui Lee, Technical University of Munich / German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  "Towards cognition enabled assistive robots"
• Prof. Masaaki Wada, Future University Hakodate
  "Smart fisheries in Japan, toward the sustainable fisheries"

ROMANSY2020: 23rd CISM IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control will be held in Sapporo as following.

A group photo taken at the Second International Jc-IFToMM Symposium in conjunction with the Twenty-fifth Jc-IFToMM Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms has been uploaded.
Please click this link to see the photo. You can download a larger image by clicking the picture on the liked page.

The program of the 2^nd international symposium (Oct. 26) and technical tour (Oct. 25) has been uploaded here. PDF version is also available.

The application deadline for the 25th Jc-IFToMM symposium (2nd International Jc-IFToMM Symposium) has been extended 17PM, August 2 (Fri). We are looking forward to welcoming many applications.

A special lecture will be held as following.

An academic symposium of corresponds to welfare technology will be held as following;

On Nov. 29 and 30, three doctor course students (Mr. Masumi Ohno, Mr. Naoto Kimura and Mr. Hiroshi Matsuo) have given their presentations in an international symposium hosted by IFToMM Italy. Jc-IFToMM gave financial support for their travel.

There is a call for presentation in the following international symposium held by IFToMM Italy.

• Name of the symposium: The 2nd IFToMM ITALY Conference
• Date: November 29-30, 2018
• Place: Cassino, Italy
• Web site: http://www.iftommitaly.it/ifit2018/

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2. Name of the presenter
3. Title of the presentation
4. Affiliation
5. Name of the academic advisor
6. Academic year

we organize a summer school "The 1st IFToMM Japan International Summer School on Mechanical Science and Robotics, - Actuator, Mechanism and Control for Robotics-" in the mid-summer this year. This summer school is officially supported by TC for Linkages and Mechanical Control, and TC for Robotics and Mechatronics, IFToMM. Important information are shown below.

This summer school covers five major chapters of mechanism and machines.

• mechanisms
• actuators
• control
• humanoids
• applications

Topics:	Mechanism design and applications Humanoid robotics and applications Actuators and applications Control and applications
Date:	from July 23, 2018 to July 27, 2018
Venue:	Four universities in Tokyo area: Tokyo Institute of Technology Waseda University Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology The University of Tokyo Factory tour in Yamanashi prefcecture: FANUC CORPORATION
Registration fee:	The fee is 40,200 JP Yen (approximately 300 Euro).
Application deadline:	MAY 31, 2018 [Extended!]
Prospective participants:	Students and young researchers (maximum number of participants: 40)
Website:	http://www.jc-iftomm.org/sc2018/